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Ismet's diplomacy was utterly successful. The warm and nervous delegates reached an agreement on concessions and the naval problem in a manner satisfactory to the Turks. The Turkish Petroleum Company's claims were dropped from the Protocol, and preferential rights cancelled for the Vickers-Armstrong and French Railway companies. Until ratification of the straight convention, Britain, France and Italy may each keep a cruiser and two destroyers on the Bosphorus; in any event this privilege must end next December...
...breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment. It is also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful...
...Warsaw, Poland's capital city, was given a dinner in honor of Marshal Pilsudski, first ex-President of the Republic. The dinner commenced auspiciously. Everyone behaved in a gentlemanly manner. Later, the flowing cup ran over. With it effervesced the courage of the assembled guests. From rollicking laughter and sounds of "Have you heard this one?" the attention of the party was directed to serious, biting and calumnious speeches. It was Marshal Pilsudski's turn to speak. He said many unpleasant things about his critics. Some he called "crooks." Then with one mighty roar: "The insults that have...
Minerva, seated, is carved from colored alabaster in the most exquisite Hellenistic manner...
Wallace Reid was, in, his own manner, an artist. Certainly there are few to dispute the statement that he was a cardinal leader of effective entertainment. Accordingly his wife and the Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League might have spared his memory the fitful fever of an opiate post mortem. Each Human Wreckage witness will take back to the salesdesk, the farm or the schoolroom a graven imprint of Reid the addict-not the actor...